Translator’s Note

Being unable at this late day to obtain the original English, the translator has been compelled to retranslate from the German the passages quoted in the text from the following sources:

• G. Alston, preacher of St. Philip’s, Bethnal Green.

• D. W. P. Alison, F.R.S.E., Observations on the Management of the Poor in Scotland, 1840.

• The Artisan, 1842, October number.

• J. C. Symonds, Arts and Artisans at Home and Abroad, Edin., 1839.

• Report of the Town Council of Leeds, published in Statistical Journal, vol. II, p. 404.

• Nassau W. Senior, Letters on the Factory Act to the Rt. Hon. the President of the Board of Trade (Chas. Poulett Thomson, Esq.), London, 1837.

• Report of the Children’s Employment Commission.

• Mr. Parkinson, Canon of Manchester, On the Present Condition of the Labouring Poor in Manchester, 3rd Ed., 1841.

• Factories’ Inquiries Commission’s Report.

• E. G. Wakefield, M.P., Swing Unmasked; or, the Cause of Rural Incendiarism, London, 1831.

• A Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.

• Anonymous pamphlet on “The State of Ireland,” London, 1807; 2nd Ed., 1821.

• Report of the Poor Law Commissioners: Extracts from Information Received by the Poor Law Commissioners. Published by Authority, London, 1833.